China of old had three competing and complementary religious traditions: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.
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Perhaps the most influential of these is Confucianism not actually a religion, but rather a philosophy of life.
Malaysia is broadly 60% Muslim and 40% other faiths (which include Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and others).
Religious and ethical beliefs are approached in much the same way as dim sum, with samplings from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
There is also Confucianism: Vietnam has kept some useful bits, such as the belief in education and self-betterment, without the feudalistic overtones.
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Confucianism has played a major role in this attitude of obedience.
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China is now the coming Asian power, but it is not an intellectual hub of pan-Asianism, either in Communist orthodoxy or in efforts to revive Confucianism.
Even in East Asia, talking of a single set of values involves blending many of the world's intellectual traditions Confucianism, Buddhism and Islam, to name but three.
The model for China will have to reflect the traditions of Confucianism, and respect for education and order, in combination with the love of (and talent) for entrepreneurism.
However, the people in this part of the world share many common heritages, including Confucianism, Buddhism, and thousand years of cultural and economic exchange and learning from each other.
This is both because of the lower status accorded to embryos as a result of Confucianism, and because the desire to alleviate suffering outweighs the sanctity of embryonic life.
The Qin's extremism was also its undoing and it was soon replaced by the more enduring Han dynasty, which sought compromise with aristocratic elites and legitimation through a revived Confucianism.
Buddhism, like most flavours of Christianity, and unlike Confucianism, does teach that individual human life begins at conception, which implies it is immoral to use embryos for this kind of research.
While the religions were often at odds with one another--Confucianism, for instance, is built on a base of worldly order and ancestor worship that's far different from Taoism's mystical beliefs--they have, over a long history, fused together.
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Influences of Buddhism and Confucianism can be found - again relics of waves of migration traceable to lands as distant as northern India and China - and the animistic beliefs of the indigenous Balinese remain a guiding influence for much of daily life.
Aware of the need for intellectuals, politicians and civil society from everywhere to rally this cause, UNESCO and the Confucius Institute of the People's Republic of China Headquarters have joined forces to host the Paris-Nishan Forum on "Confucianism and New Humanism in a Globalized World" at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 16 April 2012.
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